Mary Pat Clarke

Barbara A. Mikulski, a 4-foot-11 social worker from Highlandtown, helped stop a highway that threatened Southeast Baltimore. She broke into politics when women on Baltimore's City Council were still called girls — and rose to become a U.S. senator, a leader of the Appropriations Committee and the longest-serving woman in Congress. At Jimmy's restaurant in Fells Point, near where she grew up, people know her simply as "Barb." "Barbara, Barb — most people are on a first-name basis," says Jimmy Filipidis, 39, co-owner of the restaurant named for his grandfather. "She is Southeast Baltimore," he said. "She's Highlandtown....

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